CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Introductory 13
Section 1. — Recent Studies 13
Section 2. — Joan, Her Own Historian 20
Section 3. — The Church and Joan 21
CHAPTER II
The Mission of Joan 23
Section 1. — General View 23
Section 2. — The Supernatural in the Mission of Joan 24
Section 3. — Her Prophecies 28
Section 4. — Joan's Pre-eminent Sanctity 32
Section 5. — Joan's Military Genius 35
CHAPTER III
Christendom at the Time of Joan of Arc 39
Section 1. — General View 39
Section 2. — England and France 42
Section 3. — Dissensions of the French Princes 44
CHAPTER IV
Charles VII 51
CHAPTER V
Condition of the People 55
CHAPTER VI
Joan's Early Years 59
Section 1. — Her Birthplace 59
Section 2. — Joan's Family and its Condition. Her House and Name 62
Section 3. — Her Birth and the Chronology of Her Life 69
CHAPTER VII
The Unfolding of the Flower — Joan's Manner of Life at Domremy 73
Section 1. — As She Appeared to Others 73
Section 2. — Her Heavenly Visitors 79
CHAPTER VIII
Joan Enters on Her Military Career — She Goes to Vaucoulturs 84
CHAPTER IX
Joan Goes to the King at Chinon 91
Section 1. — Across France 91
Section 2. — With the King at Chinon 93
Section 3. — At Poitiers and Tours Her Sword and Banner 100
Section 4. — Joan's Attire and Appearance 106
CHAPTER X
The Land, the Parties, and the Men, when Joan Comes 109
Section 1. — The Land 109
Section 2. — The Parties, National and Anti-national 110
Section 3. — Some of the Men with Joan 114
CHAPTER XI
Wab in Joan's Time — Her Army 117
Section 1. — Manner of Warfare 117
Section 2. — Joan's Army 120
CHAPTER XII
The City of Orleans at the Time of the Siege 122
CHAPTER XIII
The Siege Until the Coming of Joan 126
CHAPTER XIV
Joan Comes to Orleans 134
Section 1. — The Convoy Made Ready at Blois. Joan's Letter to the English 134
Section 2. — The Revictualing of Orleans 137
Section 3. — Joan Enters the City 141
CHAPTER XV
Joan Raises the Siege 143
CHAPTEE XVI
The Campaign of the Loire 157
Section 1. — Joan Goes to Meet the King 157
Section 2. — Preparation for the Campaign 159
Section 3. — The Taking of Jargeau 161
Section 4. — Meung, Beaugency and Patay 164
CHAPTER XVII
Joan Leads the King to Be Crowned 167
Section 1. — Slow to Move 167
Section 2. — What Might Have Been 171
Section 3. — Joan's Manner of Warfare 173
Section 4. — A Bloodless March Through Foes 176
CHAPTER XVIII
The Crowning 184
CHAPTER XIX
After the Coronation 188
Section 1. — Duplicity and Treason 188
Section 2. — Advance and Retreat 191
CHAPTER XX
To Paris! 197
Section 1. — Advancing to Battle. Joan's Position. Joy of the People 197
Section 2. — A Drawn Battle 199
Section 3. — Further Successes and Vain Negotiations 202
Section 4. — Joan Leaves Compiegne
Message of Count d'Armagnac 203
Section 5. — Joan Marches 205
CHAPTER XXI
The Fight for Paris 206
CHAPTER XXII
The Great Retreat and Ajpteb 212
Section 1. — The Retreat 212
Section 2. — Joan Parted from Alengon Subsequent Movements 213
Section 3. — Joan at Bourges 215
Section 4. — Joan Unmasks Catherine of La Rochelle 216
Section 5. — The Taking of St. Pierre-le-Moustier 217
Section 6. — Failure at La Charite 218
Section 7. — The Ennobling of Joan's Family 219
Section 8. — Winter and Spring 220
CHAPTER XXIII
Joan's Last Campaign 222
Section 1. — She Comes to Lagny Defeat and Execution of Franquet d'Arras 222
Section 2. — The Prediction of Joan's Capture 224
Section 3. — The Position of Burgundy and the English 225
CHAPTER XXIV
The Siege of Compiegne 227
CHAPTER XXV
The Sortie and Capture of Joan 233
CHAPTER XXVI
Was Joan Betrayed? 238
CHAPTER XXVII
Position of Joan as Captive 241
CHAPTER XXVIII
Joan in Captivity. — From Compiegne to Rouen 246
CHAPTER XXIX
Joan's Last Prison 254
CHAPTER XXX
Some of the Sanhedrin 258
CHAPTER XXXI
General View of the Trial 262
CHAPTER XXXII
Preparing for the Trial 270
CHAPTER XXXIII
The Examination of Joan 274
CHAPTER XXXIV
A Changs of Procedure 286
CHAPTER XXXV
Between the Examination and the Trial 204
CHAPTER XXXVI
The Trial 297
CHAPTER XXXVII
The Question of Torture 804
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The Pretended Abjuration 307
CHAPTER XXXIX
The Quitting and Resumption of Male Attire 315
CHAPTER XL
Interrogatory of May 28th 318
CHAPTER XLI
The Sentence and Execution 321
CHAPTER XLII
After the Death of Joan 328
CHAPTER XLIII
Did Joan Die a Martyr? 333
CHAPTER XLIV
What Did Her Party Do to Save Joan? 335
CHAPTER XLV
The Rehabilitation 336
CHAPTER XLVI
Joan Through the Vista of the Years 340
CHAPTER XLVII
Joan's Beatification 342
CHAPTER XLVIII
Canonization — St. Joan of Arc 344

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